Archive for the ‘News’ Category

News roundup: Chrome for Android, ASCII Fluid Dynamics, Node.js: doing life wrong?

(no podcast this week – Boo! Check back next week)

Chrome for Android
Google has just released a beta of Chrome for Android, which is available for those running Android Ice Cream Sandwich (aka “the 1%”). This isn’t JavaScript-specific news per se, but it is HUGE news for web devs who are all too familiar [...]

News roundup: psd.js, turn.js, Ryan Dahl steps down from Node.js

Listen to this week’s podcast (February 6, 2012)

psd.js
psd.js is the beginnings of a Photoshop PSD parser in JavaScript! Right now it only essentially extracts metadata information – such as image size and layer information – but it’s off to a good start! You can even drag and drop files right into the page [...]

News roundup: Enyo.js, Jed, HTML5 Please, WAT

Listen to this week’s news roundup (January 30, 2012)
I really should have named today’s update “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, since those were all involved with my commute this unusual morning! This week’s podcasts is surely enough recorded from SFO Airport, so I hope you enjoy the atmosphere and the occasional interruptions!

Enyo.js open-sourced
As you may [...]

News roundup: iOS Orientationchange Fix, JavaScript Patterns, jQ.Mobi

Listen to this week’s podcast (January 20, 2012)!

iOS Orientationchange Fix
jQuery Mobile’s Scott Jehl has released iOS-Orientationchange-Fix (read his blog post). This has been a persistent annoyance on iOS since its release. You may be familiar with the mobile viewport tag, which allows you to properly fit sites to fill the screen and be [...]

News roundup: tons o’ links for the New Year

Hello there, it’s been a while! Oh dear, another year has passed. And it seems that I’ve been stocking up a year’s supply of JavaScript tidbits to dump on the unsuspecting populace! Ok, not quite, but I do have quite a backlog, that’s somewhat in chronological order, starting with the newest items:
David [...]

News roundup: 11-11-11! insertAdjacentHTML, classes in JavaScript?, twilight of Flash and Silverlight, Yahoo! Cocktails

Listen to the podcast for November 11, 2011
insertAdjacentHTML
Mozilla has a nice overview of insertAdjacentHTML, a DOM function that’s intended to supplement innerHTML. It’s a bit less destructive and plays nicely with content that’s already in the DOM. For instance, whereas innerHTML completely blows away whatever is inside the container element, insertAdjacentHTML has handy [...]

News roundup: I Like Eich. 140 byte synthesizer, An End To Negativity, Sencha Touch 2.0, Dart (again)

Listen to this week’s podcast (October 29, 2011) (23:05 minutes)
I’m trying a little something different this week. I hope you guys like pictures.

Brenden Eich + “I Like Ike” mashup by @lonnen
140 byte synthesizer
A while back Jed Schmidt created a simple little project on GitHub called 140 bytes – a simple Gist [...]

News roundup: Node causes cancer, node cures cancer!

This week’s podcast (I was hoping to keep it short, but I kept talking and talking… sorry!)
Libraries, frameworks, and code
Cube – open-source visualization for time series data
chainvas – chaining sugar for Canvas
JS-Forth: Forth Interpreter in JavaScript
when.js is a lightweight Promises and when() implementation (from CommonJS)
MongoSpy is a MongoDB monitor that outputs through your browser’s console
Swipe [...]

News roundup: JavaScript under attack!

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(Podcast edit: I mistakenly mention Respond.js, which is actually a media query polyfill – I’m actually talking about Responsive images)
Google Dart
By far the biggest news of the week isn’t JavaScript, but rather a language called Dart (formerly Dash?), which certain factions within Google hope will replace JavaScript, according to a leaked [...]

News roundup: deck.js, Yahoo Kills off Maps API, Patterns for Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture

Listen to this week’s podcast (September 9, 2011)
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture is a lengthy article by Addy Osmani detailing some basic principles of writing a large-scale JavaScript application. It’s inspired by a classic Nicholas Zakas talk outlining some of the same principles (hey, I think I remember [...]




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